Tardy for the Party

Man, this weekend really got away from me!

It was the weekend before my husband's 40th birthday, and we were

getting all of our celebrating done early.

Did you know that it is impossible to make tamales without drinking tequila? 

Anyhoo....

It is with great sadness that I post my final DT card for the

Oh Alice! blog.

After almost a year of providing AIW fans with awesome inspiration

to create their very own Wonderland, Jessica is jumping

back down the rabbit hole to focus on future endeavours

and to try some new things too.

I am going to refocus on my Etsy shoppe and some other crafts that

I have been dying to try my hand at, but mainly just gonna scale

back to give myself more room to grow creatively.

This will be the final OA! challenge in it's current form, because the

insanely talented Lynne Philips has taken the reins and will be the

new Mad Hatter at her revamped Altered Alice blog! 

The challenges will still follow the same chapter format theme,

but now they will run monthly as opposed to a weekly challenge.  

Looks like someone has more time to play doesn't it?

The final challenge was a "goodbye" or a "hello" card, but I was feeling more

"thankful" than anything and made a thank you card instead.

I am so thankful to Jessica for inviting me to be a part of this

tremendouslytalented group of ladies.

I am thankful for the weekly challenges that took me out 

of my normal rut and kept the wonder and whimsy in my crafting.  

I used a great image of Disney's Alice and paired it with some

beautiful papers and stickers from Nikki Silvis Scrapbooker.

Thank you Oh Alice! 

I'll be stalking Lynne's Altered Alice blog

and may even find the time to play along!! 

You should too!

  

Chapter 46: Queen Alice

"Hush-a-by lady, in Alice's lap!

Till the feast's ready, we've time for a nap.

When the feast's over, we'll go to the ball -

Red Queen, and White Queen, and Alice, and all!"

~ "Queen Alice", Through The Looking-Glass

We here at Oh Alice, hereby cordially invite you to meet Iracebeth the Red Queen of Crims and Mirana the White Queen. Iracebeth and Mirana are sisters who couldn't be more different: while the White Queen is kind and gentle and is loved by everyone, the Red Queen's answer to everything is "Off with their heads!"

To honor our Royal Highnesses, we challenge you to choose which Royal Court you would want to have rule over you, the Red Queen's or the White Queen's???

So the challenge this week, if you should choose to accept it, is to create a card/project that is either mostly white or mostly red.

This week's Oh, Alice challenge is being sponsored by

 Baby Bud Designs!

I am working with "Josh".

He is such a cutie.

Some may even call him a "heart breaker".

Lots of fun working with the adorable image provided by Baby Bud Designs.

Drop by their site and check out their digital images.

Short post for me today.

I'm losing the fight against this heinous cold I've been given.

Must stagger away now... 

Chapter 45: Remembering Holiday Dreams

`Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, `It WAS a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.

-- Chapter 12, Alice in Wonderland

So the challenge this week, should you choose to accept it, is to share something that helps you capture your holiday memories, like a layout, mini-album or picture holder of some kind, OR to use an icy blue color scheme!

Our generous sponsor, Nikki Sivils, is offering a huge prize to help you capture those memories! One randomly drawn winner will receive a 6x6 inch pad, 12x12 inch designer paper, and burlap covered buttons from the Happy Holly-Days Collection!

 If you aren't familiar with Nikki's products you really should check them out. She has some gorgeous lines of paper with coordinating, high quality, embellishments to match.

And if that's not enough, she has the cutest and funniest packaging I have ever seen.

For instance, her "Cool Cord Brads", say, "Brads. No relation to Steves", or her

burlap buttons say, "Burlap! Excuse me.", on the back of the packaging. Very witty.

For today's challenge I went with the blue color scheme using the

"Something for Everyone" line of papers and embellishments from Nikki.

This is probably one of the most beautifully coordinated cards I have ever made,

thanks to Nikki's loverly line of paper and embellishments .

I finally got to use my new Spesch Designer Stamps "Alice" digi.

She is one of the cutest Alice's I have seen.

Tracey also has an adorable Mad Hatter image that I am planning to use very soon! 

I have this really cool Alice postmark and a burlap covered button from Nikki Silvis

fit perfectly right in the middle! I just added some ivory ribbon and I this card was fini!

I really enjoyed working with Nikki's products and found that the card came together 

fairly easily with all the coordinating goodies on hand. If you'd like to try out some

of these awesome products for free, you should enter this week's challenge at Oh Alice! and

maybe you'll be the big winner of some very generous Nikki Silvis prize swag.

Oh Alice! Chapter 30: Hey there, Nice stems...

Just as Alice said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading right into it. `That's very curious!' she thought. `But every thing's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.' And in she went.

Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.

Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocked) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains..."

Hello out there! It's a lovely day here in Wonderland and we are celebrating the summer with a nature theme today! Well, TREES and FLOWERS and BIRDS to be more exact! We scored a GREAT sketch sponsored by PAGEMAPS today that is just perfect for today's theme.

Check it out over at the Oh Alice! challenge blog.

Being that the challenge was to incorporate trees (I only have Halloween trees), and birds (I only have vultures and ravens and such), and fleurs, I went with the fleurs.

I do have quite a bit of flowers and fleury bits, so this was a good way to use some of my

hoarded goodies.

I even broke out with the fancy schmancy half pearls!

I finally managed to work Willow, from Tickled Pink, into a project!

I've had her stamped for months(?), and had fun finally bringing her to life.

What did I ever use before Copics?

This was a fun sketch that I wasn't familiar with and it took me outside of my box.

I am pleased with how it turned out and promise to never speak ill of any of my projects

for Oh Alice! again.